Magazine Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to:

Explain the ways in which a magazine has been constructed for a specific audience.

 For my assignment i choose match magazine

Codes and conventions

Firstly the front page isn't sentence structure this shows that it’s not really for someone who wants to read more of a quick look through, I’d

 Front page

 The Front page outlines all the sectors that are stories and pictures within the magazine.

 The central image

 Someone on a football pitch

 The logo

Simple design the logo is made to stand out on the front page over everything on this page the logo stands out the most.

Colour themes

Primary colours (more for children).  The Theme of colour really sets up the target audience for this magazine

 Target audience

The specific target audience could be anyone interested in football but because of the offers like 'free chewits with this magazine'  i would say that the target audience is more for people 5+.

 Gender

The gender of this magazine i would think would be boys this is because of how male orientated the articles and front page is.

Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation doesn't really apply with this magazine.

Standard Occupational classification

The Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) is a common classification of occupational information for the United Kingdom.

The price of this magazine is 1.99.  For a child to buy is quite expensive, i'd say that the classification for this magazine would be C1.

Mode of address

The mode of address for this magazine would be very informal it’s more like a conversation you have between friend being wrote down then a formal magazine, it uses slang word like ‘pics’ Etc..  this shows that the magazine has an informal mode of address

Match magazines construction for the specific audience.

Firstly the magazine is brightly coloured and uses primary colour all the way through, the front page is orientated around football. This shows that the audience is target mostly for males.  The offer prizes which shows that the magazine audience is more for a young generation but the offer on the particular magazine I choose was for free chewits, as children’s sweets I decide that this magazine is more for children around the ages.

The PCC is an independent body which administer the self-regulation for the press.  They do this by dealing with complaints, framed within the terms of the Editors' Code of Practice, about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines.    Anyone can complain to the PCC and it will complain will be dealt within the terms of the Editors' Code of Practice, about the editorial content of newspapers and magazines (and their websites, including editorial audio-visual material).  The Editors’ code of practice states The Press Complaints Commission is charged with enforcing the following Code of Practice which was framed by the newspaper and periodical industry and was ratified by the PCC in December 2011 to include changes taking effect from 1 January 2012.